AMR Answers: Why the First Mile Is So Rough; The Lowdown on Weighted Vests

Another Mother Runner

Sarah Bowen Shea

Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Anyone curious about running by heart rate—and wondering what the numbers really mean—need to listen to this episode. The host duo answers Jennifer’s HR question, plus her query about why the first mile of a run is often the toughest. Then they turn to Sandy’s query about weighted vests, with Dimity summing it up best: “If you want to turn a walk into more of a workout, wear a weighted vest.” Before the first Q+A around 5:30, Sarah shares the workout she’s loving these days. Please call 470-BADASS1 (470-223-2771) to record your question. Love our heart rate training programs! When you shop our sponsors, you help AMR. We appreciate your—and their—support! Feel the Currex difference: Get 15% off with code AMR15 at Currex.com Use code INF-AMR to get a gift card good for your next purchase at Selkirk.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.1	runner to enter. Welcome to AMR answers. This is Sarah Bowen-Shea. And this is Dimmody McDowell, and it is springtime, huh, Sarah?
0:45.7	It sure is. And it's just my most favoriteest time of the year, particularly here in Portland, because we have a very extended spring and just so many
0:56.2	flowers. And oh my gosh, fresh leaves, new leaves, I just feel are the epitome of promise,
1:03.7	you know? Yes, I agree. I agree. This time of year just feels like, oh, there's a tulip. Oh,
1:09.2	the lilacs are coming up. Like everything, yeah, it feels
1:11.5	like everything just feels very fresh and new and nothing is tired right now, you know?
1:17.5	Yeah. We need to draw the energy in from Mother Nature herself. Yeah. Yeah. So, and I am getting out and about
1:26.5	and getting a new literal perspective on all of the springtime when I ride my elliptigo.
1:33.1	Oh, fun.
1:34.0	Yeah.
1:34.6	So I have been doing, you know, I definitely wrote it in the wintertime.
1:38.4	But, gee, there's something about being out in the sunshine when, you know, there's things blooming rather than it being
1:45.9	kind of drizzly and overcast and a whole bunch of bare tree branches.
1:51.8	I mean, it was still, it was fun in the wintertime, but boy, the fun factor has gone up by
1:57.8	a lot in the springtime.
1:59.9	And, you know, you have a unique vantage point
2:02.6	on the world around Estimity because of your hype. But so being up higher than even if I was on a
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